Changes, changes

I was maybe eight years old when Dad bought me a bicycle. He knew that he was only going to be able to buy me one bike, so he bought a sturdy full size bike and fastened blocks to the pedals so I could reach them. It was too big for me to mount in the ordinary way; I would lean the bike up against the corral fence, climb the wooden rails to get on and go riding around the farmyard, and before long down the road. When I was done, I would ride my bike back the the corral fence, stop and get down the way I got up. I had my share of spills and scrapes with that bike, but before long I was riding no hands. I put many miles on that bike, rode it until I got a driver’s license.

Now I have a 21 speed mountain bike, it needs to be in the lowest gear to get up a small hill, but I can get up to the top gear going down. Both hands stay on the handlebars, and I wear a helmet.

This morning, Michelle and the grandchildren came to clean up Grandma’s garden plot. Grandma isn’t up to doing much gardening this year, but the weeds grow anyway. The first thing Evan, three and ond half years old, said was “I can ride my bike.” He just started riding his little two wheeler last night and brought it along to demonstrate. He hasn’t really figured out how to stop, but doesn’t go very fast yet anyway. And he’s pretty close to the ground if he does fall. This is just the beginning, pretty soon he’ll leave Grandpa in the dust.

You may have noticed a couple of changes in this blog. It is now simply flatlanderfaith.com. I have registered that as a domain name and wordpress is now dropped from the web address. It is still hosted by WordPress and works exactly the same as before.

I have also added buttons for a bunch of social media apps, which appear at the bottom of each post under the share button. I don’t use any of those apps myself, except LinkedIn, and have no plans to open accounts with any of them. My thinking is that there may be folks out there who would appreciate having those buttons to share content from this blog. We’ll see what happens.

LinkeIn is a different kind of beast, a business networking app. I belong to several LinkedIn discussion groups dealing with bookkeeping, taxes and writing and find them informative.

There is also a button for Pocket. This is not a media sharing app. It originally went by the name of Read it Later, and that describes what it is all about. I have the Pocket symbol on my web browser and whenever I see an interesting article on the web and don’t want to take the time to read it right away, I hit the pocket button and it puts the content into my Pocket for reading at a more convenient time. It is linked to my Android phone, so I can read it there if I wish.

I’m still not quite willing to cough up the $30.00 per year to make this an ad free site. WordPress sells ads in order to provide free hosting. I don’t know how often ads appear on my blog, I don’t see them on my computer. If anyone is seeing ads that they find objectionable, please let me know. That could make it a little easier for me to spend the money.

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